"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Tamaroak wrote:
I trust in our presidummy to lead us fearlesly into battle. He's got
lots of military experience in these matters s an AWOL deserter back in
'72. Plus his staff has so much experience in military issues. Let's
just see how far down the chain of command we have to go to find
someone who actually showed up.

Never mind; he's done so well in domestic matters that I'm sure this
will all carry over when we go to battle with the infidels, right?

And we have god on our side, right? The god who gives us permission to
torture people as long as it's not done on US soil.

I'm disgusted with the whole lot of them, except for John McCain, who
really does have the right combination of balls, intelligence and
morality.

Capt. Jeff

Hey, we have a brand-spanking-new prison scandal abrewin', on top of all
the other Bush debacles.

From the Muslim world's viewpoint, if Plamegate and the CIA prison
situation was never reported on, would the great majority of them even
know that things like that were happening? Of course not. So if
"scandals" like that are so inflammatory to the enemy, why does the news
media report on them in time of war?

It is anti-US propaganda in a time of war...and the media that splashes
it all over the evening (and daytime) news is treasonous for doing so.
In their thirst to bring down Bush, the news media is damaging our
country beyond repair. And idiots like you lap it up and delight in the
fact that "it's not going to keep our troops safer". That's something to
be happy about!?!


Your problem here is that you believe the news media works for or is
responsible to the government.

Way back when, before you were born, I worked as a reporter for the Kansas
City Star. I worked on the morning edition, which was The Star with the
nameplate "The Kansas City Times." The paper was published continuously
during the day. The paper was "conservative" on its editorial page, but
responsibly conservative, not like the conservatism of today.

One night I was assigned to cover a lecture being given by David
Halberstam, who had a year or so earlier written a best-selling book about
our quagmire in Vietnam. I don't remember the details of the guy's
lecture, but it wasn't in support of the administration then, and when I
wrote up the article, I figured the city editor, the famous Donald D.
"Casey" Jones, would spike it, because of the paper's political leanings.

Much to my surprise, the article ran, and it got a good position, too.
When I asked Casey about it, he said, "We don't work for the government,
we don't really work for the Star company. We work for the people, and the
people have the right to know what their government is doing in their
name."

Well, nothing has changed. The people have the right to know that their
government is engaged in running secret gulags, and doing who knows what
to their prisoners, most of whom have not be convicted of any crimes.

I really don't believe you have any concept of what patriotism is all
about. It is NOT blindly supporting one's country. It is helping its
country behave properly in the world community.

But I doubt you'll understand this concept.

News isn't news anymore. It's sensationalism used to further an agenda.

And both sides do it.

But when news starts to become propaganda material routinely used by the
enemy in time of war, then it's time for the news media to rein in the
reporting of that news.